How migrate my keyring (containing ssh passprases, nautilus remote filesystem, pgp passwords) and network manager connections?
- by con-f-use
I changed the disk on my laptop and installed Ubuntu on the new disk. Old disk had 12.04 upgraded to 12.10 on it. Now I want to copy my old keyring with WiFi passwords, ftp passwords for nautilus and ssh key passphrases.
I have the whole data from the old disk available (is now a USB disk and I did not delete the old data yet or do anything with it - I could still put it in the laptop and boot from it like nothing happened). On the new disc that is now in my laptop, I have installed 12.10 with the same password, user-id and username as on the old disk. Then I copied a few important config files from the old disk (e.g. ~/.firefox/, ~/.mozilla, ~/.skype and so on, which all worked fine... except for the key ring:
The old methods of just copying ~/.gconf/... and ~/.gnome2/keyrings won't work. Did I miss something?
1. Edit: I figure one needs to copy files not located in the users home directory as well. I copied the whole old /home/confus (which is my home directory) to the fresh install to no effect. That whole copy is now reverted to the fresh install's home directory, so my /home/confus is as it was the after fresh install.
2. Edit: The folder /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections seems to be the place for WiFi passwords. Could be that /usr/share/keyrings is important as well for ssh keys - that's the only sensible thing that a search came up with:
find /usr/ -name "*keyring*
3. Edit: Still no ssh and ftp passwords from the keyring. What I did:
Convert old hard drive to usb drive
Put new drive in the laptop and installed fresh version of 12.10 there (same uid, username and passwort)
Booted from old hdd via USB and copied its /etc/NetwrokManager/system-connections, ~/.gconf/ and ~/.gnome2/keyrings, ~/.ssh over to the new disk.
Confirmed that all keys on the old install work
Booted from new disk
Result: No passphrase for ssh keys, no ftp passwords in keyring. At least the WiFi passwords are migrated.
4. Edit: Boutny! Ending soon...
5. Edit: Keyring's now in ./local/share/keyrings/. Also interesting .gnupg
